Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] [Tuxpaint-maintainers] Moving from SDL 1.2 to SDL 2.0

[Mark K. K. <mar...@gm...>]

On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 3:32 AM Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:

> So right now, if I type: ['] [a], I get "�", rather than "'a",
>
even without first clicking the [Cmp] (compose) button.
> This is not the correct behavior.
>
> (And, of course, typing ['] at first appears to do nothing.
> If I type it again, I finally get a "'" on the screen.)
>
> Again, this is all with the On-screen Keyboard feature
> (tuxpaint --onscreen-keyboard).  Typing on my physical keyboard
> seems fine.  (i.e., it's a problem at the OSK level, not the
> IM level, like I mistakenly stated before.)
>

It looks like the onscreen keyboard mapping files are setup such a way that
apostrophe, backtick, and tilde are treated as accents unless AltGr is
pressed first.

As far as I know this may be an intentional behavior to accommodate users
of certain European languages.

In any case, submitted the change
<https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxpaint/tuxpaint/ci/d167907e194b4cff4c8ae75f6e628aba7ae1c461>
to both master and sdl2.0 branches to swap the behavior of these three keys
between plain and AltGr.  Feel free to revert the check to recover the
previous behavior.

Mark